You will never be the tail gunner on a flying fortress
God, comfiest thing ever
Until you get shot and die, but still, comfy as hell. Closest you'd get to feeling like you're in Star Wars, too.
>>30138955
thank goodness. would not want to be shot to pieces. /thread.
Someone's never seen Memphis Belle.
>>30138974
>/threading your own post
>>30138955
>Hah take that kraut
>oh shit nose canon
>so that's what it feel like to have air flowing throw your chest
>>30138955
>$800 for a 30 minute ride
Thank god, only thing worse is the ball gunner
You will never raid a ball bearings factory with your buddies
>>30138955
Tail gunners were the first to go, I would rather be the pilot or co pilot.
>>30138955
I'd piss myself just off of not knowing where the hell I am going. Shit, I'd take the ball just so I could see ahead of me.
>>30138955
You will never get to ride on the landing legs of a little bird, while working for blackwater in their Hayday.
>>30138955
>not being the tail gunner on a B-52
>>30138999
Not wanting to be cosy in your ball turret
>>30138955
My grandmas brother was in 43-45
Shit sounded fucking horrifying, seeing burning people tangled up in burning parachutes falling like rocks. One of the storys sounded like he was engadged by a me410 with a bk5. My dad and his brother always said he and his wife couldnt have kids because his balls frooze too many times up there
>>30139157
Ive seen zeiss guncam footage of 190s making sucessful frontal attacks
>>30139264
>Geting hit by radar missiles
>>30139270
>not wanting to be scraped off 50m of runway
>>30139264
>being replaced by a computer-controlled turret
>>30138997
$800? It was only ~$400 6 years ago when one of the B-17s came to the city I was working in then.
>I didn't ride, my family convinced me the cost was too much
>I regret not going now
>>30139493
$865 actually for a tailgunner seat
>>30139007
Collings Foundation sucks ass.
It's amazing how a egotistical crew can ruin those old birds.
Take a look at the right side of their B-24. They display all the crew and members on the entire side of the plane.
To them it's not about preserving history anymore.
>>30139270
My great-uncle was a ball gunner. He said it was fucking terrible. I tend to believe him.
>>30139668
Maybe you're right, but who gives a fuck and how does what someone else does to their property affect your life?
>>30139270
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Randall Jarrell, 1914 - 1965
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
>>30138997
>>30139493
>>30139514
it's $550 to fly left seat in the C-47 at meacham field in texas
apperently you actually get to fly it with an instructor. he lets you do the take offs, landings and all the flying
they say no experience required. im not sure if that means no experience with C-47s or no flying experience at all.
>>30139899
>When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
i was the only one in HS that understood what that meant.
>>30140031
>in my hs history class
derp
>>30139904
>father is a warbird mechanic, got offered a spot with All American
>flew in a P-38
>mom got right seat in a DC-3
>I got right seat time in the Albatross used in The Dark Knight while the pilot was being lazy
Fuck paying.
>>30139323
>not being one of those sunovabitches in Vietnam that shot down MiG-21s with it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress#Air-to-air_combat
>>30139493
inflation
>thanks Obama
>>30138955
>You will never be the tail gunner on a flying fortress
Thank God. Works for me.
>>30139262
>I never asked for these feels
Closest I've ever been:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW0UymVQmi8
"From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose."
>>30140206
kek
>you
>will
>never
>>30140298
Yea but think of all the sexual fetishes that arent as good now as they were back then.
Pic related, corsets and lace are all good, but something about that pussy stink mixed in with latex
>>30140346
I mean arent good compared to now.
>>30140031
Your class was filled with absolute brain dead retards then.
>>30138955
Whoa ho ho Emma! You can have my bullets too!
>>30140298
The modern day equivalent of that would be a topless chick sitting on the face of some dude built like Duke Nukem.
